The strongest possibility for me as to when we may experience
the rescue event is the anniversary of Jesus' resurrection.

If Nisan begins during the next month of March, then the Feast
of First fruits would be on March 26/27.

The main reason I lean towards this possibility (regardless of
the year) is what better "type" of the resurrection of the dead
in Christ than on the anniversary of when Jesus' body was
resurrected?

On that very day, He ascended to heaven to present His blood in
the heavenly temple before the Father, and also presented, as a
First Fruits offering, the small number of Jewish folks who were
resurrected along with Him.

This first ascension can be seen in Jesus'response to Mary in
the garden in John 20:17. That others were resurrected
along with Him can be seen in Matthew 27:52.

Jesus then came back down for a period of 40 days, teaching and
revealing himself to the disciples, pointing them to wait for
power from on high (Pentecost).

He then ascended back to heaven in front of the followers.

I wonder if the above will be a picture of what the body of
Christ might experience. The dead in Christ will rise, we
will all have new bodies, and we will ascend.

Then, some of us will return to teach and reveal Jesus to the
144,000 Jews scattered throughout the world, pointing them to
get to Israel to wait for the sealing that will take place by
the two witnesses on Pentecost. I believe that the
witnesses may start their proclamation time of three and a half
years in the middle of the feast of tabernacles in the fall
(which I will touch on in a subsequent post).

This part of the body of Christ will then go back up to heaven
on the anniversary of when Jesus' second ascension.

The feast of first fruits and also Pentecost may both point to
our rescue event, in particular, because of the wave offering
God told the high priest to perform during each of these two
feasts. A portion of first fruit grain was to be lifted up
above the priest's head and presented directly to God.
Barley during first fruits and two loaves of wheat bread during
pentecost. I believe these both point to an ascension time
of specific groups of believing people.

I believe the feasts can have multiple fulfillments. One
will be focused on Israel, another on the body of Christ.
I think students of prophecy error in their interpretations by
assuming that the spring feasts are each already completely
fulfilled. Granted, that is true for Passover, but it is
not necessarily so for the feast of first fruits.

Keep in mind that God is bringing about His Kingdom throughout
all of creation. This takes place on the earth and also in
the heavenly places (other planets in the universe).

God will bring about his kingdom on earth through remnant
Israel. His promises to Abraham and David will be
fulfilled.

However, we have been blessed with spiritual blessings in
heavenly places (Eph 1:3). A clue of our sphere of Kingdom
proclamation is seen in Revelation 12:7-8, which is a future
view at the middle of the Tribulation years. Satan and his
minions are defeated in battle and cast down to earth.
Notice that it says that there was no more room for them.
Why? I believe because we have taken their place at that
time. I speculate that the number of people in the body of
Christ matches the number of the fallen angels.

Also, in the same way that Jesus sent the disciples out by twos,
and the 144,000 witnesses might be sent out to gather the lost
sheep of the house of Israel under the direction of the two
witnesses, so too we might be sent out in small groups to
proclaim Jesus to folks on other planets at some point in the
future. That is not to say that some of us won't be
involved in what God is doing on the earth through Israel.

In other words, God has a plan for all of creation that has
started with the earth. He is/will be accomplishing His
grand plan through two groups. Remnant Israel and the Body
of Christ.

Therefore, I believe some of the Feasts have dual fulfillments,
taking into account the roles of each group.

In other words, there was a firstfruits wave offering of Jews by
Jesus, and there might also be a first fruits wave offering of
the nations (the body of Christ) at the same feast.

In Romans 15:16, Paul, who was the apostle to the nations and
also presented the mystery of the body of Christ hidden prior in
the plan of God, shows that he saw his role as a priest
preparing/gathering an offering of the gentiles to the
Father. Might he have foresaw it as a wave offering?
to be lifted up on first fruits or on pentecost?

Another hint possibly is found in Romans 6:8. Paul is
laying out what is true of us because of our union into Christ
Himself (1 Cor 6:17). Because of this we are already and
truely included in Jesus' death, burial, resurrection,
ascension, and even now seated with Him in heavenly places (Eph
2:5-6).

However, he says something in verse 8 that had been confusing
for me prior. "Now if we died with Christ, we believe that
we shall also live with Him." He references our
resurrection, not in already accomplished terms like elsewhere,
but as a hope-based future. He changes the verb
tense. Is it perhaps to point to the resurrection of our
bodies? His context is Jesus' death and
resurrection. Might this be a timing clue?

As a thought provoking aside, in light of God's method of
getting some Jews' attention by provoking them to jealousy in
terms of what He accomplishes with the Gentiles
(Romans10:19-20), if our rescue happens on first fruits, and if
it takes place this March verses April, then it will end up
taking place on Easter, the day Christians celebrate the
resurrection of God's true Messiah. This scenario would
definitely provoke some Jews to a type of jealousy. This
is pure speculation on my part.